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Originally Posted by senior citizen
GREAT POST.
Ayup. (Vermontese for yes) Our parents didn't have to worry that some nut case would put a needle in our Halloween candy. We didn't have fancy trick or treat bags........just pillowcases. We'd come home and dump them on the living room floor......actually, my own children's generation was still safe as far as trick or treating in our town....and neighborhoods.
Remember the movies very well. How much did your admission cost???
Ours was twenty five cents. And they'd give us two cents for a cup for the free water. My parents never gave us money for candy. Sometimes we would have some money and buy some.
So, between the fifty cents for my little brother and I to get into the movies, they give us the extra four cents for the two cups for the free water.
The airconditioned theatre matinees were so nice during the hot summers.
Sometimes we went on a Saturday afternoon......and do remember the same as you do..........the newsreels, cartoons and double feature.
For a quarter. We also sometimes went on Sunday afternoon instead of a Saturday. This was in New Jersey. When I think back now, I wonder if my parents weren't using that as a "babysitter" so they could have a free afternoon? We had to walk down our street, then down a very long long avenue to the main street where the theatre was........then all the time inside............hours and hours...........then walk back home. I think they were trying to get rid of us.....for some peace and quiet.
And on the Sundays when we didn't go to the movies.....my little girlfriends and I would walk down to our corner and go into our church.
This was not the morning mass.............we'd just go in and light candles.
All the little girls did that. Just another cool place. That's when church doors were OPEN. I didn't go to Catholic school, but some of my friends did. During the morning mass we would all sit together and show each other what we had in our little purses.
So girly.
Speaking of the free water and the 2 cents for the Dixie cup....................
When we were kids we must have been dehydrated.
No one gave us water bottles to carry around with us.
We played out all day long from morning till bedtime in the summer months. Knew when to come home for lunch and for supper. Without a cell phone call.
But, I keep thinking..........we ran around and walked all over town without drinking water. The one place, besides the movie theatre, that did have an outdoor drinking fountain.........was the old A&P supermarket. So, we'd stop there if we were in that neighborhood.
We had the freedom from about 8 years old on.......to explore all over the city.........and never got abducted. Guess no one wanted us? Or, there were not so many nuts out prowling around as there are today. We lived in a city......not a rural area. Just food for thought.
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Ours was 25 cents, as well. You could get popcorn, candy, and a coke for another 25 cents.
Remember all the Burma Shave signs along the "highways"? Each one had a portion of a rhyme on it and you had to wait until you got to the next sign for the next part (cars didn't go 80 mph then). There was no such thing as a Rest Area with restrooms, either......only the side of the road
. (It was a lonnnng way between towns and gas stations.)
My grandmother would make me dresses from the flour and/or sugar sacks, so I always got a new dress when we went to Granny's.